Thomas Chadwick might have flung the threepenny bit into the road.

But nothing could convince the doctor to surrender the threepenny bit.

In the second place, that envelope was sealed, apparently with a threepenny bit.

She hunted for her little purse and gravely took out a threepenny bit.

Resurrecting the shape of the old threepenny bit is a stroke of genius.

Tim apologised for his moist finger and the threepenny bit.

If a snipe were the size of a threepenny bit

He fumbled in all his pockets, and, finally, with some difficulty, produced a threepenny bit.

A whole shilling, a sixpence, and a threepenny bit.

But he insisted I take the threepenny bit.

Imagine a man pinching my cheeks-it'ud be like picking up a threepenny bit off a glass counter.

Nine out of ten people feel sincerely indignant when a threepenny bit is given to them in their change.

The new coin, which resembles the old threepenny bit, entered circulation in March and has security features to thwart criminals.

Their position is quite reasonable; nay, in a sense it is infinitely reasonable, just as a threepenny bit is infinitely circular.

The popular hatred of certain coins, however, goes back to a far earlier date than the invention of the threepenny bit.

I split its tongue with a threepenny bit the way it would talk, but devil the word it ever said for me.